Sentences with phrase «matinee stars»
Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Matinee stars John Goodman (Arachnophobia / 10 Cloverfield Lane) as Lawrence Woolsey, a movie producer / promoter who is plugging his new movie Mant!
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He was a matinee idol at Duke, a bad boy at Minnesota and, last season, an All - Star at Atlanta.
He has also starred in many movies, including Hocus Pocus (1993), Matinee (1993), and Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992).
For sheer entertainment value, though, little in Cannes could best Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, a black - and - white silent movie about the end of silent movies, starring the rubber - faced Jean Dujardin (a veteran of Hazanavicius's hilarious OSS 117 spy - movie send - ups) as a vain Hollywood matinee idol who digs in his heels and refuses to adapt to talking pictures.
Flush with Hollywood success, Tinseltown gossip and a goony matinee idol American husband (Elwes channelling some sort of Andy Kaufman creation), she is to star in a big - budget film about the life of Queen Isabella.
Gracie Bowen (Schroeder, Firewall) is the a girl with three brothers, living in the shadow of her very gifted older brother, Johnny (Soffer, Matinee), one of the school's star soccer players.
The heroes of The Dreamers are stars of their own suspended matinee; when they ultimately join the riots seething along the Champs Elysées, Matthew's chilling observation that the throng is an epic composed completely of extras, not idols, comes to pass.
Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star — a matinee idol from films such as «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» «The Sting,» «The Way We Were,» «The Electric Horseman» and «Out of Africa» — he has of late been involved with smaller - scale, socially conscious dramas.
The Last Movie Star (R for sexuality and partial nudity) Burt Reynolds stars in this poignant character study about an aging matinee idol forced to face the fact that his glory days are way behind him.
Instead, he wants to be a singer, a crooning cowboy like his favorite movie star, the late, great matinee idol Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt).
Ham on Regal, the long - running fundraiser starring Ferris High School parents, begins its regular run Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. after debuting at a Sunday matinee.